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Emily Anne Opala2025-09-10 12:00:442025-09-10 10:32:41Dr. Jennifer Williams Receives OBI-Banting Discovery Award for Brain Health ResearchLet us Feature Your Work
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Our Expert Database connects you with multidisciplinary women’s health researchers, professors, and trainees. Use this platform to find a collaborator for your research project, identify an expert to comment on current events, discover a supervisor for your graduate work and more. Alternatively, browse the profiles below to get to know our members.
Mateja Perovic
Cognitive neuroscientist interested in women’s brain health, mixed methods, and sex and gender science. My primary research interest is in the effects of ovarian hormones on cognition, with a focus on category learning across the menstrual cycle. I have previously studied cognition in women with early estradiol deprivation, and in...
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Maya Iturra
For the past 20 years I have dedicated my life both in academia and as an activist to deepening my understanding and responsibility to embracing social justice with an intersectionality framework. As a PhD student I hope to continue to address issues of inequity and lack of diversity in the...
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Maya Koblanski
Maya Koblanski is a passionate and motivated undergraduate in her third year of Behavioural Neuroscience at UBC. She has worked in the Viau Lab for the past year and a half researching sex differences in stress coping responses, recently under an NSERC USRA, and is now starting her directed studies...
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Maya Libben
Dr. Maya Libben is an Associate Professor of Psychology and the lead investigator of the PLAN Lab at the University of British Columbia – Okanagan. She is also a registered clinical psychologist (#2167) with the College of Psychologists of British Columbia. Dr. Libben completed her Bachelor of Science at the...
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Maya Zaidan
Maya Zaidan is a mental health advocate at heart. She has a diverse set of research experiences which began with the Neurodiversity Foundation in Amsterdam in 2020, and most recently, she has completed her MSc in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, which included a practicum...
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Md Saiful Alam
Saiful is starting his PhD at the School of Population and Public Health at UBC. He is part of the FOCAL research team that is fighting against cervical cancer worldwide. His overall research goal is to improve women’s health by contributing to the elimination of cervical cancer through the lens...
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Meejin Park
Meejin is currently completing her M.Sc. at McMaster University’s Muraca Perinatal Epidemiology Research Lab (PERL). Her academic journey began at the University of Toronto, where she majored in Neuroscience and Health Studies, with a minor in Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health. She is currently working on her thesis titled “Elucidating...
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Meenakshi Malhotra
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Megan Kadzirange
My name is Megan Kadzirange and I am an international Undergraduate student from Zimbabwe, studying Psychology at the University of British Columbia. My interests include global and public health, particularly women’s health in rural, low-income and/or Indigenous communities. Additionally, I am passionate about creative and academic writing, and how both...
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Megan Pilatzke
As an autistic person with over 30 years of lived experience, I am a thought leader and I am passionate about promoting acceptance, inclusion, and accessibility in society – particularly, in the workplace – of autistic and neurodivergent people. The workplace/employment is my main area of research interest because of...
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Megan Udala
I am a third year Ph.D. student in the Clinical Psychology program at the University of British Columbia. My research has focused on forensic psychology issues, specifically focusing on discrimination in the justice system. My clinical work has focused on neuropsychology in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
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Meggie Gilmour
Meggie Gilmour is a dedicated healthcare professional with a passion for mental health research, especially for women. She is a registered nurse in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Ottawa and is currently working towards a Master of Science in Health Systems at the Telfer School of Management. With...
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